Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19

! up a pIoupiSHdlt, lAu az "h"-'
spear shall be bent into a crook at
each cpd, and then cut in two, and
what was one spear shall be two prun
inc forks. Down with hioloch and up
with Christ Let no mor warehouses;
eat ont OF the mangor where jesus
was born.
Peace! Forever roll of the sky the
black pillars 81 smoke from the Mar
cngos and Salomancas and BorCdinos
and Sedana and Gettysburgs Of earth!
And right after them. roll into the henv-
ems the peaceful yapors from the CHM
neys of farm houses and asylums, and
churches and capitals Of Christian az
tons, and, as the sunlight strikes
through these yapors they will write in
letters Of jet and gold al over the
sky from horizon to zcnith, "tfiory 70
God in the highest. and on earth peace,
good will to menu Then let all the
mcn-of-war fire a broadsjic. and AL
the forts thunder forth a r%esounding
volley, and the earth be girdled with
the cannonade over the final victory
Of the trlth.
While thinking of these things |
looked out from my window, ard the
wind was violently blowing. And
/ saw from many chimneys the smoke
tossed in the air and whirled in great
velocity, volume after volume. fold af-
ter fold, and carried on the swift wind
were the great pillars of smoke. And
helped by Solomon in the text
/ saw the speed of the
church symbolized. Do YOU realize
the momentum the church Of God is
under? Why the smoke of Il chimney
on the top of Mount Washington when
the wind is blowing sixty miles an hour
is slow rs compared with the celebrity
eff good influences. For iifty-nine cen
turtles the devil had it his own way
among the nations. Nearly all the
great missionary movements have been
started within the century, and see
what one century has done to recover
the world from iifty-ninc centuries Of
devastation. What great reyiyals!
What mighty churches! What saved
millions. What advancing civilization!
In all the United States, Great Britain,
ireland, France, Germany, Italy. full
freedom to worship God according to
conscience. Along the coasts OF China,
Japan and Africa the batteries are
! planted which are 10 take all these m
| pires for God and civilization. From
| the ruins of Babylon and A>svria and
Nineyeh and the valley of the Nile con
irmations have been eXhumcd proving
to all fair-minded men that the Bible is
the truest book ever written. The my
thologies OF Egypt were found to have
embodied in them the knowledge OF
mans expulsion from paradise. and
the sacrifice of Il great emancipation.
Noses account Of the creation, cor
roborated by the hammer or Christian
biologists; the Oldest profane writer,
like Hiromus, Helanicus, and Berosus,
confirming the Bible account of ancient
longevity; Tacitus and Pliny confirm
ing the Bible accounts OF destroyed
Sodom and Gomorrah; Tacitus and
Porphyry telling the same story OF
Christ Is Matthew and Luke told; Mac,
robius telling of the massacre of chill
dren in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketch
ing the darkness at the crucitixion.
1t is demonstrated to all homes,
men that it is not so certain
that William Cullen Bryant wrote
Thanatopsis or Longfellow wrote
Hlawatha as that God by the hand OF
prophet and apostle wrote the Bible
All the wise men in science, and law,
and medicine, and literature, and mer,
chandise are gradually coming to be-
lieve in Christianity, and oon there
will be no people who disbelieye in it.
except those conspicuous for lack 0,
brain or men with two families who dc
not like the Bible because it rebuke.
their swinish propensities.
The time is fastening when there
will be no inhdels LETT except o~ertine,
and harlots and murdcrcrs, Millions
Of Christians where once there were
thousands, and thousands where once
there were hundreds. What a brigh
evening this, the evening OF the nine,
tcenth century. and the twentieth cen
fury, which will dawn in thirteen years
from now, will, in my opinion, bring
universal victory for Christ and the
church. that now is marching on witt
step doublc-quick or, if you prefer thC
figure Of the text, is being swept on IL
the mighty gales OF blessing. imposing
and grand and majestic and swift, like
pillars of smoke
Oh, come into the church throug!
Christ the door, Il door more g%loriou,
than that of the temple of Hercules.
which had two pillars, and one was
gold and the other emerald Come 10,
day, Como in and be one of the eter
nal visitors! The world YOU leave be
hind Is a poor world. and il will bnrr
and pass on like pillars OF smoke
Whether the iinal contlagtation vii
start in the coal mines OF Pennsylvania
which, in some places, have for many
years been burning ana eating into ih'
heart Of the mountains; or whether !
shall begin Lear the California geyscrs
or whether from out the furnaces o
CotopoNi and Nesuvius and Stromholi
il SHAH burst forth upon the astonish
! cd nations. | make no pro
phecy. but al biologists tell II
4 thot v,a stand an tho lid of . wprl,